Where does pain come from? Where does suffering come from? A discourse on the origins of human pain and suffering مقاله

خلاصه ماشینی:

The personality of God means that He too, like humans, 1) is a being possessing intellect and understanding, 2) possesses a specific type of consciousness, namely self-consciousness, in the sense that He perceives the contents and activities of His own consciousness, such as sensory perceptions, mental images, thoughts, feelings, emotions, and His own desires; He is aware that He has consciousness or is aware, He can consider His own consciousness as an object of knowledge, He can become an object of knowledge for Himself or, in other words, obtain horizontal knowledge about Himself, and He can see Himself as others see Him; 3) not only does He have beliefs, emotions, and desires, but He also has beliefs about His own beliefs, emotions, and desires; 4) He has moral responsibility for His actions and is subject to moral praise and/or blame; 5) He is a moral being, in the sense that He has moral judgments and rulings, meaning that in addition to judging regarding the beneficial or harmful nature of actions and whether actions cause pleasure or anger, He also rules on matters of good or bad, right or wrong, and the moral duty and necessity of actions, and, among other things, considers a certain pattern and way of life to be desirable; 6) He possesses a series of rights, including moral rights and legal rights; 7) considers humans to be part of the moral system, meaning He regards them, like Himself, as members of a moral community; 8) can communicate with others through speech, meaning He is able to use language to express and convey His purpose and to establish communication with others, to reason using language and to present one point after another in the position of objecting to a point, and in short, to perform various types of speech-acts.